H3751: כַּרְכְּמִישׁ
Karkᵉmîysh · pronounced kar-kem-eesh' · “Carchemish”
Definition
Karkemish, a place in Syria
KJV translates it as: Carchemish.
Word origin: of foreign derivation;
Extended definition
§ Carchemish = "fortress of Chemosh"
a Hittite capital northeast of Israel on the Euphrates river captured by Pharaoh Necho and then from him by Nebuchadnezzar
a Hittite capital northeast of Israel on the Euphrates river captured by Pharaoh Necho and then from him by Nebuchadnezzar
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3751 is translated
- carchemish ×3
Bible verses with H3751 (Karkᵉmîysh)
Karkᵉmîysh appears in 3 verses.
- 2 Chronicles 35:20
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
- Isaiah 10:9
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
- Jeremiah 46:2
Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh–necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.